Harlequin eBookstore is having a holiday sale. For today only, you can get 50% off the list price of ebooks at Harlequin eBookstore. There doesn’t appear to be a limit to what you can buy or how many but I believe that the code is good for one use so load up your shopping cart all at one time. The code is HALFEBOOKS.

Let’s get some recommendations rolling. I really enjoyed this new Karina Bliss book, Here Comes the Groom It’s a friends to lovers story and one of the funnier Bliss books I’ve read. The hero decides after a life harrowing experience that he is going to marry his best friend, whether she wants to or not. Their awakening feelings of passion for each other seem natural and it’s got a great, great ending. Great ending.

I’ve recently gone on a glom of Maureen Smith’s books. I had to have an ice cold drink at the ready because her scenes are hot. Whatever You Like looked like a Harlequin Spice and I thought it was a short story and passed over it several times but after reading a sample, I figured out it was a full length category (or maybe even slightly longer) and bought it. It was a good read. It’s not quite erotic romance, but it is very very sexy.

Harlequin books like Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly and The Magnate's Make Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson were part of a Save the Contemporary campaign.

Last year, Harlequin had the same ebook deal and you can read through the recommendations on the thread. Harlequin had a goal of releasing 2000 ebook titles this year so there have to be some great books we have missed. Let us know about them.

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Among Medicals, a bunch of Sarah Morgan’s and Marion Lennox’s backlist books are on there and I bought a whole bunch of them. I love Morgan’s Glenmore series. Some of her backlist HPs are there too. Liz Fielding had a bunch of backlist books released a few months ago and the ones I’ve read so far have been terrific.

Kathleen Korbel’s Some Men’s Dreams was released last month in the backlist. It’s a great, great, Silhouette.

And of course Carla Kelly has a new Historical with a January 2011 pub date but it’s available now.

I went shopping there earlier and the Karina Bliss was top of my list. The only one of the books I bought that I’ve read so far is Annie Burrows’s A Countess By Christmas and it’s a really lovely, proper Regency with a gorgeous hero and heroine.

Good God DAMN their website is a thing of cosmic horror to try and use. Everything opens in a new tab, there are no excerpts on the ebook site, their search algorithm seems to turn shit up at random and it’s so ugly.

I hope they didn’t pay too much for this redesign. It’s not any better than their last, nearly unusable site.

@Vi Unfortunately, The Harlequin ebookstore does not sell a Kindle-compatible format (much to my personal chagrin, as a fellow Kindle owner). You can buy in another format, strip the DRM, then convert it to a usable Kindle format (something Jane has talked about doing on here), but that’s pretty much your only option.

@Vi, you’d have to get Mobipocket format and strip it (it will then work on Kindle without conversion) or buy ePub and strip it then convert with Calibre. Epub would be my preferred method as Calibre will use the ePub’s toc.ncx file to add those nifty little chapter marks to the Kindle’s progress bar (I like them anyway).

Oh damn. I forget to get Here Comes the Groom while I was there and now I’ve used my coupon code. And it’s not available for Kindle until 1/11. Paying full price AND doing gymnastics to get it onto my Kindle? Probably not. I’ll wait and hope I remember to buy it in January.

@Liz: That makes me sad. And I’ve read that there will be an estimated 5 million Kindles in use by the new year, so that’s a big chunk of industry that would probably disagree. Here’s hoping Kindles get ePub support in the near future, I guess.

For some reason they have applied an old Halloween coupon to my basket (that’s defunct)and it won’t let me use the ebooks coupon code. Argh!

Oh well, I heard Harlequin were doing ok so I suppose they can afford to los eover $50 of sales today. I suppose it’s a drop in the bucket. But it just gives me one more reason to buy my books from third party websites instead of from Harlequin direct.

Check out the Harlequin Digital Backlist under our Easy Resources or click on the “Harlequin” tag and it will pull up many of our reviews. I always tag my Harlequin reviews with it. Just keep scrolling down and clicking on “older reviews” to get them all.

@Samantha: I thought that too, but the 50% is off the list price. Most of the ebooks are already sold at below list price (some at well below list price) on the website, so the extra discount is not 50%.

Has anyone noticed that not all books are available in ePub? If they’re going to switch completely to that, does that mean that they will start offering ePub for older books?

I really hope so, as there are several series that I want to start (or continue), but several volumes aren’t available in ePub, and that’s really the only useful format they have for iPhone, without either removing DRM or trying to read PDFs on a small screen.

I’m disappointed. I orderd the new Bliss book in epub, tried to convert it, and it’s too complicated for me. Now I have to wait until January to purchase the Kindle version. Stinks. I hate all this DRM stuff.

Thanks for this post. I stocked up on several Christmas books I’ve been wanting! My only problem with reading through Adobe PDF, it won’t even allow me to print out the books OR save a copy to read on another computer and that sucks, especially not being able to print.

You all know I missed the deadline by 22 minutes for the coupon. Well I wrote to Harlequin and they responded today, they have created a coupon for me to use so I can buy all the books on my list at half price. I emailed them the my shopping cart and explained why I missed the coupon. I am very surprised and pleased at the level of customer service they extended to me.

Erin, I did the same thing! I’m looking forward to using the code tomorrow since I didn’t get on the sale. I tried to remove a book from my cart at about exactly 11 pm (central time) and after that the code wouldn’t work.

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